PET-CTBased Quantitative Parameters for Assessment of Treatment Response and Disease Activity in Cancer and Noncancerous Disorders

The various semiquantitative and quantitative PET-CT parameters provide measurement of disease activity and assessment of treatment response in the PET-CT studies. These include standardized uptake value (SUV), metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and total lesion glycolysis (TLG), and total metabolic tumor volume (TMTV). Thresholding and adaptive thresholding methods are commonly used algorithms for the evaluation of global disease activity. Readily available commercial software frequently in-built with the current generation PET-CT scanners for providing easy, less time consuming, highly reproducible, and more accurate measurement of global disease activity on PET-CT imaging in evaluation of malignant as well as benign disorders.